Questions & Answers

All our Sales Engineers have extensive knowledge and experience helping customers with part design, tooling design, processing, qualification and quality control, assembly—and more.  They have long histories of helping customers with material selection, manufacturing process selection, finishing processes, and assembly.  Our philosophy is to take accomplished engineers and teach them sales.

Our Sales Engineers help customers through development, into Prototype, then low production, up through high production and final assembly.

AS not all of this is done in the same factory—Our sales engineers help coordinate all of the factories, and make sure all technical knowledge learned on each project is available for the sequential factories that can be involved.  So even if your project graduates from requiring an ISO 9001 facility to requiring an ISO 13485 facility, none of the tribal knowledge will be lost during that process.

We have also very long standing relationships with all of our vendors.   So if something needs expedited or moved to the top of the priority list, we know exactly what knobs to turn to make that happen.

Although we supply products from almost all metal and plastic processes, our predominant processes are Injection molding (all variations and sizes),  and  Aluminum and zinc die castings and finishing (of all sorts).  We actually have almost 50,000 sq foot of clean room powder coating shop complete with robotic spraying equipment.

See our brochure below, you can also download a pdf by clicking Download Brochure in the upper right corner.

Plastics—ALL thermoplastics (neat and filled)—we can process everything from PP to glass filled implant grade PEEK.    We do many custom blends and alloys for our customers exacting material requirements using our network of compounders.    We do not have a list of “stocked” grades.   We can source anything available, across the globe, for your project.   You don’t need to design your parts around what we offer, we customize our service based on the design of your parts.

Plus - Silicones (LIM and Compression), and rubbers ( Compression).

Metals - for castings - Aluminum, Zinc, ferrous metals, Titanium, CCM, maraging steels, and more.

There are pdf's for materials on our Resources Page.

We work in all industries from Consumer Products up through, Automotive, Medical devices and Equipment, and ITAR certified.  All of our facilities are ISO 9001 certified.  Many are IATF 16949, and ISO13485 certified also.

Depending upon process and part sizes, we have factories in Taiwan, USA, and China.

We view our vendors and clients as lifelong partners.  We are there to ensure all of your needs are met.

You are placing PO’s and paying the actual facility doing the work.  There is not a broker or distributor in the middle.

We are there to supplement/augment the factory technical staff. We have the view of integrating many different parts/components from different materials and processes (and often assembling them) for customers.

We work from 3 D data bases and 2 D control drawings. We help complete designs by doing detailed DFM's (Design for Manufacturing reviews), once we start a program.

We are happy to refer product designers, industrial designers, mechanical designers from the ones we have worked with. Just need to know some more information about what you need..

Control Plastics and Metals will do part or all of a program.  E.g--- just the molds for your injection molder---Just the metal or plastic component--- Decoration and assembly including on purchased or supplied components, Sub-assemblies,  full product assembly, and packaging..

If it is not something we usually get involved with we are happy to refer you to others we have worked with over the years.  You do need a complete product to sell.

Yes, we  make  molds in China or Taiwan and work with US molders.    If possible, We like to have the molder review tool design , answer questions that come up during DFM, and let us know if there are special needs for their equipment.  We also have may different levels of tooling qualification.

Yes, we are located in the USA, China and Taiwan

Yes, we can also make your mold in the USA and move to China or Taiwan for production.  OUR GOAL is to get you what you need, when you needed it.